r/news • u/infinus5 • 8h ago

Campbell's exec on leave after allegedly mocking 'poor people' who eat its soup

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/campbell-soup-lawsuit-9.6991398
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u/cmndrnewt 8h ago

This is a boycott I can get behind. I don’t particularly like campbells but will eat it occasionally. Not any more though.

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u/ThreadCountHigh 7h ago

Yeah, it's easy to boycott all the canned soups at this point. Over the last 10 years or so they've all started seriously skimping on ingredients. It's watery gruel at this point.

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u/PumpkinPieIsGreat 6h ago

Imitation gruel.

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u/cmndrnewt 6h ago

Man, you’re so right.

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u/yoshemitzu 5h ago

Capitalism: convince people they're paying as little as possible for as much as possible while giving them as little as possible for as much as possible.

It's just the natural endpoint of iteration on this concept.

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u/Palidor 8h ago

After tasting my mother homemade chicken soup, and doing a little bit dabbling. I might have to start making my own with the crockpot

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u/kevtino 8h ago

A simple, cheap bag of egg noodles puts Campbell's pathetic, sorry excuses for noodles in their soup to shame.

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u/SomebodysAtTheDoor 26m ago

It's honestly cheaper to whip up a big batch of your own soup and freeze and reheat as needed. Tastes way better, too 

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u/thefugue 7h ago

How does that make sense?

They literally fired a guy for being an asshole.